Lewisburg is a tiny city located in the state of Kentucky. With a population of 766 people and just one neighborhood, Lewisburg is the 286th largest community in Kentucky.
When you are in Lewisburg, you'll notice that it is more blue-collar than most other communities in America. 38.99% of Lewisburg’s employed work in blue-collar jobs, while America averages only 27.7% that do. Overall, Lewisburg is a city of service providers, sales and office workers, and production and manufacturing workers. There are especially a lot of people living in Lewisburg who work in office and administrative support (12.64%), sales jobs (10.47%), and healthcare suport services (10.47%).
Also of interest is that Lewisburg has more people living here who work in computers and math than 95% of the places in the US.
The overall crime rate in Lewisburg is one of the lowest in the US. This makes it one of the safer places to live in the country in terms of crime.
The city is relatively quiet, having a combination of lower population density and few of those groups of people who have a tendency to be noisy. For example, Lewisburg has relatively fewer families with younger children, and/or college students. Combined, this makes Lewisburg a pretty quiet place to live overall. If you like quiet, you will probably enjoy it here.
Being a small city, Lewisburg does not have a public transit system used by locals to get to and from work.
In Lewisburg, just 8.90% of people over 25 hold a college degree, which is very low compared to the rest of the nation, whereas the average among all cities is 21.84%.
The per capita income in Lewisburg in 2022 was $20,097, which is lower middle income relative to Kentucky, and low income relative to the rest of the US. This equates to an annual income of $80,388 for a family of four. However, Lewisburg contains both very wealthy and poor people as well.
The people who call Lewisburg home describe themselves as belonging to a variety of racial and ethnic groups. The greatest number of Lewisburg residents report their race to be White, followed by Asian. Important ancestries of people in Lewisburg include German, Irish, English, French, and Scots-Irish.
The most common language spoken in Lewisburg is English. Other important languages spoken here include Korean and Spanish.
The way a neighborhood looks and feels when you walk or drive around it, from its setting, its buildings, and its flavor, can make all the difference. This neighborhood has some really cool things about the way it looks and feels as revealed by NeighborhoodScout's exclusive research. This might include anything from the housing stock to the types of households living here to how people get around.
This neighborhood has wide open spaces, few people, and lots of space to stretch out. If you like locations that fit that description, you may like this neighborhood. Based on NeighborhoodScout's exclusive analysis, with only 32 people per square mile living here, this neighborhood is less crowded than 92.3% of America.
Did you know that the neighborhood has more Scots-Irish ancestry people living in it than nearly any neighborhood in America? It's true! In fact, 3.8% of this neighborhood's residents have Scots-Irish ancestry.
is also pretty special linguistically. Significantly, 3.5% of its residents five years old and above primarily speak German/Yiddish at home. While this may seem like a small percentage, it is higher than 98.5% of the neighborhoods in America.
How wealthy a neighborhood is, from very wealthy, to middle income, to low income is very formative with regard to the personality and character of a neighborhood. Equally important is the rate of people, particularly children, who live below the federal poverty line. In some wealthy gated communities, the areas immediately surrounding can have high rates of childhood poverty, which indicates other social issues. NeighborhoodScout's analysis reveals both aspects of income and poverty for this neighborhood.
The neighbors in the neighborhood in Lewisburg are lower-middle income, making it a below average income neighborhood. NeighborhoodScout's research shows that this neighborhood has an income lower than 76.6% of U.S. neighborhoods. With 20.7% of the children here below the federal poverty line, this neighborhood has a higher rate of childhood poverty than 69.8% of U.S. neighborhoods.
What we choose to do for a living reflects who we are. Each neighborhood has a different mix of occupations represented, and together these tell you about the neighborhood and help you understand if this neighborhood may fit your lifestyle.
In the neighborhood, 40.4% of the working population is employed in manufacturing and laborer occupations. The second most important occupational group in this neighborhood is sales and service jobs, from major sales accounts, to working in fast food restaurants, with 26.1% of the residents employed. Other residents here are employed in clerical, assistant, and tech support occupations (17.4%), and 15.5% in executive, management, and professional occupations.
The most common language spoken in the neighborhood is English, spoken by 95.5% of households. Some people also speak German/Yiddish (3.5%).
Culture is shared learned behavior. We learn it from our parents, their parents, our houses of worship, and much of our culture – our learned behavior – comes from our ancestors. That is why ancestry and ethnicity can be so interesting and important to understand: places with concentrations of people of one or more ancestries often express those shared learned behaviors and this gives each neighborhood its own culture. Even different neighborhoods in the same city can have drastically different cultures.
In the neighborhood in Lewisburg, KY, residents most commonly identify their ethnicity or ancestry as German (8.6%). There are also a number of people of English ancestry (5.7%), and residents who report Irish roots (4.2%), and some of the residents are also of Scots-Irish ancestry (3.8%), along with some Mexican ancestry residents (2.5%), among others.
How you get to work – car, bus, train or other means – and how much of your day it takes to do so is a large quality of life and financial issue. Especially with gasoline prices rising and expected to continue doing so, the length and means of one's commute can be a financial burden. Some neighborhoods are physically located so that many residents have to drive in their own car, others are set up so many walk to work, or can take a train, bus, or bike. The greatest number of commuters in neighborhood spend between 45 minutes and one hour commuting one-way to work (32.6% of working residents), longer and tougher than most commutes in America.
Here most residents (81.4%) drive alone in a private automobile to get to work. In addition, quite a number also carpool with coworkers, friends, or neighbors to get to work (15.9%) . In a neighborhood like this, as in most of the nation, many residents find owning a car useful for getting to work.